The Python Apprentice

Concatenating strings

Concatenation of strings is supported using the plus operator:

>>> "New" + "found" + "land"Newfoundland

Also the related augmented assignment operator:

>>> s = "New">>> s += "found">>> s += "land">>> s'Newfoundland'

Newfoundland, the sixteenth largest island in the world, is one of relative few closed, triple-compound words in English:

Figure 5.2: Newfoundland

Remember that strings are immutable, so here the augmented assignment operator is binding a new string object to s on each use. The illusion of modifying s in place is achievable because s is a reference to an object, not an object itself. That is, although the ...